Above are the unemployment rates for individual countries, it's easy to see where the trouble lies. From the Guardian, 9/1/13 - figures for 2012.

Only Italy and France (of comparable economies) are worse off than the UK. Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, NL etc. are all doing better. The east bloc countries are almost all much worse, except Romania and I think that's because they're all here and in the UK, pushing up the numbers!

AND this is a bloke who has expressed an interest in becoming President of the EU. He'll fit in nicely.

Daily Mail

He's taken millions from dictators and cosied up to warlords. As its reported 'Teflon Tony' is plotting an alliance with a super-rich financier, a devastating critique of the... Man who turned amorality into an art form

tigger quotes (above) the unemployment rates from all major European countries: Norway's unemployment rate of 3.3% is well below that of any other European country.

In addition, they have no deficit but a surplus of around £100 billion - that's because, instead of sharing their North Sea oil and fish stocks with other countries, including basket-case economies like Greece, they have kept them to themselves.

Plus, being a neutral nation, they are respected internationally for that neutrality, and are as a consequence much used for international conferences. The past understandings between the bitter enemies, Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, were called 'The Oslo Accords', because Norway hosted the peace talks.

Norway is not in the euro.

Norway is not even in the European Union...

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